07-20-2016, 04:49 PM
MGS_forgot_password wrote:
...and now, 47 years later, we have to pay the Russians to put our Astronauts in space.
I wish people would quit harping on that. It's temporary, it is being corrected, and in the long run it's a better solution than that half-baked Constellation program that was cancelled a few years ago. It's true that we put all our eggs into the Space Shuttle basket, which never achieved the goals of reliability and economy. As a result a "cheap" human-rated booster was not developed.